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      I think OP is probably referring to gen-alpha. The millennial’s kids. The ones that are growing up never knowing a world without Minecraft or smartphones.

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          I see you learned the arcane AT commands to keep the modem from screeching when you connected to the internet.

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          Or to look your crush up in the phone book after working up the courage for ages. Call, heart-racing. Parent answers. Ask for the girl. They yell across the house. One year later. “Hello?”

          “Hey, it’s me, ivanafterall.”

          “Who?”

          Classic rite of passage, am I right, guys!? We’ve all been there!

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          There’s only like, five or six alive right now. There’s the Baby Boomers (our parents, because most of our grandparents have died off by now), there’s the one after us, the Zoomers, which are Gen-X’s kids. Gen-X is the one that came right before us. You and me are Millennials, I’m 40. We came into adulthood in or around the year 2000. Our kids are mostly gen Alpha. The first generation born entirely within the 21st century and have never known a world that wasn’t fully connected 24/7.

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            While that can be well and true now, I had been called before Gen.X then Gen. MTV, there was a time when we were the screwed generation (with similar adjectives to it), then millennials (I was already working though before Y2K, and recently I heard someone refer to FPS from my teen years as a “boomer shooter”.

            I’ve been through more generation changes than a dragonball character.

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              Same. For years, it seemed, when that concept was introduced to me, I recall being Generation X. Then I’d hear “No, no, we’re Generation Y.” Then somehow I was a Millennial. I don’t know what I am anymore. I’m clinging to the original Generation X, if I have to have a label. It sounds cooler.

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        Superior quality, but didn’t make it on the market, the cassettes and mechanisms were too expensive, the heads as well. Sony thought that wouldn’t matter, so they pushed it… turns out price does matter.

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    BlueRay came out in 2006, there are Teens that have probably never seen a CD or DVD.

    Blockbuster died around 2010, apple stopped shipping optical drives in the last of their computers around 2013, Streaming became the norm, there might be teens that haven’t used “Discs” for video and have streamed everything.

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      Got one living with me who falls into this category. She about lost her mind when I showed her a laser disc; thought it was some kind of special record. Yes, that’s the world we live in, now: kids collect records and cassettes, but have never seen a blu-ray.

      whatyearisthis.jpg

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      To be fair, adoption of bluray took a bit of time. The cheapest blu ray player was the PS3, and that was like 600$

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        A lot of people I know had fairly large DVD collections but never accumulated very many Blue-ray releases.

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      I have never used a blu-ray. By the time they came around I was either pirating or streaming everything.

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        I have a couple that have floated around my house for years. Not really sure where they came from. One of them is The Life of Pi, if anyone is looking for it.

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    I’m 21 and I’ve used VHSs when I was younger, we still have them and a player and I’ve even recorded something on one by myself.

    But genuinely? It is an outdated technology and there is nothing bad if other young people just don’t know about it. The only thing making is special to you is nostalgia, and that’s genuinely okay for you, but other people aren’t worth less for not feeling the same way about it or not knowing it.

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      Well, it’s special because that’s where all our most important family videos are, and I don’t know how to get them onto a computer without paying a bunch of money, because we’re poor and can’t splurge on unnecessaries >.<

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        VHS to Digital Converter, Video Capture Card USB 2.0 Audio Video Capture Card Device Old VHS Mini DV Hi8 DVD VCR to Digital Converter for Mac, PC Support Windows 2000/10 / 8/7 / Vista/XP/Android https://a.co/d/63J6YvU

        Looks like you can just plug this into a VHS player, hit play, and convert it yourself for $15

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    Just watched the Futurama episode I dated a Robot, the professor kept the robot dating advisory special in the VCR. Always gives me a laugh.